Frame for use in table games



Sept. 8, 1925. 1,552,489

L, F. KLEIN FRAME FOR USE IN TABLE GAMES Filed Aug. 6, 1925 Patented Sept. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRAME FOR USE IN TABLE GAMES.

Application filed August G, 1923. Serial No. 656,034.

To all wiz-0mz't may concern.:

Be it known that I, LoUIs FREDERICK KLEIN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 6 Christopher Street, Newt-on Heath, Manchester, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for Use in Table Games, of which the yfolle-wing is a specification.

This invention relates to improved means for the construction of frames, for use in playing games of thetype commonly known as table football, hockey, billiards, pool and the like.

The object of my invention is to increase or diminish the playing area of such games, by means of an adjusting composite frame; the members of which frame may be readily taken apart for compact storage.

In order that my invention may be understood, I append hereto one sheet of drawings, in Figs. l and 2 of which the general arrangement of the frame is shown.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation, metal sheath partly cut away to show wooden members within sheath.

Fig. 4 is a plan of corner piece;

Fig. 5 is a perspective elevation of clip attachment for securing goal posts; and,

Fig. 6 an elevation showing clip attachments in position on frame side, and hold- .ing nprights of goalposts.

A frame, according to the invention comprises four sides and four corner pieces, and is rectangular. Each side is composed of several members of wood or the like, o-f convenient height, say one and a half inches, and of suitable width, say one inch, connected endlong, by means of sheet metal, papier mch or the like, detachable channel fittings, hereinafter referred to as sheaths. Each sheath is of convenient length, say siX inches and proportionately adapted to iit over and encase part of its preceding, and part of its succeeding wooden member.

The wooden members, within the limits of their-respective sheaths, and on the telescopic principle, may be moved nearer to, or more distant from each other, and the frame adjusted to enclose a desired area.

Thus, by my invention, the one frame may readily be adapted to lit upon, and around, the surface of different. sized tables; or, by reducing the number of wooden members and sheaths as found necessary .and conwooden member.

venient, the frame may be adapted to enclose `fastenings, such as drawing pins, thumbscrews, or the like, through holes provided towards the ends of each sheath. If found necessary and convenient, the frame may be secured to the table by suitable means, such as clamps or the like.

For use with the frame, and to secure goal posts and the like, associated with table footballs, hockey, and similar games, a detachable clip fitting is provided.

This clip fitting is formed of wire, say one-eighth of an inch in thickness, bent in a series of connected arches, to end in a horizontal arm. This arm is extended a convenient distance, say threeinches, inside the playing area and terminates in a hoop fitting, suitable to secure the upright of a goal post. Goal posts are provided.

The clip fitting is proportionately adapted to fit closely over the frame side when pressed.

Fig. 3 in which A is the sheath, B the wooden members, and F the fastenings, shows this arrangement. The end members of a side are sheaths. Each end sheath fits over and encases a part of the wooden member of its respective corner piece. A corner piece is comprised of two members of wood or the like, each conveniently, say, four inches in length and proportionately adapted to t within the end sheath of its respective side; the said members being secured at right angles to one another by means of a special metal fastening. This fastening is a sheet metal strip about one sixteenth of an inch in thickness and one and a half inches wide; in form, a segment of a circle extended at both ends into a stra-ight strip.

Such strips have their broader sides in planes at right angles to one another, and are secured by any suitable means, each end strip to the outer face of its respective The loop formed by the segment portion provides a pocket for use in billiards, pool and like games. suitable for such pockets may be attached to the segment by any convenient means, say, by hooks. The wooden members towards the ,segment do not meet, thus leav- Netting i ing an entrance to the pocket. To adapt the frame` for gaines not requiring pockets,-

such as table football, hockey, and the like, the entrance toeach corner is closed by 5 means of a portable metal, Woo'diontheglike strip, conveniently, say one eighth of an inch thick, and one and a half inches in height, which is adapted tol engage with suitable vertical recesses K provided in the l0 inside face of each Wooden member of the corner piece. A v j,

lFig-` 4 in which Gr is the fastening H, the Wooden members', and D the barrier, shoWsthe constructionof a corner pieceas l5 arranged for table football, hockey and simi- What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America is :-v

A frame for table game apparatus Comprising ai plurality .of bar members arranged end to end and disposed to form a rectangle, channel sheaths vover the end portions of the adjacent aligned bar members, in Which the bar Ymembers are adjustably disposed and fastened, looppmembers torming pockets, connecting the adjacent extreme bar members at the corners of the rectangle, removable barrier members extendingl betvveen the adjacent eXtreme bar members .at the corners and cliptittings supporting` portions of the game apparatus removably secured'to the frame. Y

In Witness whereof IafliX my signature. LOUIS FREDERlCK KLEN, 

